The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge : : Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science / / by Loet Leydesdorff.

• Superior document: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication,
• VerfasserIn: Leydesdorff, Loet 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
• Language: English
• Series: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 247 p. 50 illus., 30 illus. in color.)
• ISBN: 3030599515
• ISSN: 2365-8371
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Loet Leydesdorff.

This open access book have three themes have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems theory for modelling meaning processing and Shannon's theory for information processing, I show that synergy can add new options to an innovation system as redundancy. The capacity to develop new options is more important for innovation than past performance. Entertaining a model of possible future states makes a knowledge-based system increasingly anticipatory. The trade-off between the incursion of future states on the historical developments can be measured using the Triple-Helix synergy indicator. This is shown, for example, for the Italian national and regional systems of innovation.